Brown v. State

OPINION

Judge SUDDOCK.

A jury convicted Raymond Scott Brown of four counts of second-degree theft based on four separate incidents of shoplifting from the Kenai Home Depot. 1 On appeal, Brown argues that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment against him based on alleged grand juror bias. Brown also argues that the prosecutor’s cross-examination of him was improper and that the prosecutor engaged in improper argument during the State’s summation. For the reasons explained here, we reject Brown’s grand jury argument and his improper summation argument. We agree…